Former toast salesman and radical Muslim is a hit in Old Europe. From Turks.us, with thanks to Anthony:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been chosen by the readership of a European weekly as the “European of the Year”.Belgium’s European Voice announced the winner late Tuesday, November 30, at a black-tie dinner, saying Erdogan was singled out for his recent reforms introduced by his ruling party to pave the way for a seat in the expanding 25-nation European Parliament, the EU Observer website reported Wednesday, December 1.
The Turkish parliament adopted last month a far-reaching overhaul of the country's 78-year-old penal code, clearing a major obstacle to accession talks with the euro-bloc....
Self-made Erdogan, former leader of the Islamic Justice and Development Party (AK), rose from selling toasted bread in the streets of Istanbul to the helm of the political party.
He graduated from a religious high school, then joined the Faculty of Commerce, Marmarah University.
During his early age, he joined the National Safety Party (NSP), led by veteran Islamic leader Necmettin Erbakan, in the early seventies.
If Erodgan accepts the Qu'ran as a literal, perfect, divine relevation, as he appears to, then he also accepts precisely those principles which quite reasonably justify the murder of Theo Van Gohg and threaten the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and other Dutch politicians.
These Infidels call for not only containment of Islam in the Netherlands, and Europe, (which according to the Qu'ran rightfully belongs to Allah and all believers), but they knowingly reject the Prophet and are attempting to influence people to disbelief. The Qu'ran is quite clear on what should be done with these kinds of Infidels.
Whether or not Erdogan personally endorses the assassination of Dutch European politicians and artists or not, his belief system does, and the burden of proof in that system of thought is on the 'believer' who claims that these assassinations are NOT justified.
So, start talking Erdogan: prove to Muslims in Europe that they should not endorse or seek the murders of Infidels who attack Islam.
And if he does not talk, we should invoke the principle: silence implies consent.
Absurd of course, and when it comes to European treatment of Islam these days, one's motto must be: Credo quia absurdam.
But there is less here than meets the jaundiced eye. Turks have some kind of interest in these magazine-sponsored contests, and tend to respond en masse. Do not forget that when TIME magazine asked readers to vote for the "Man of the 20th Century" the runaway winner (ignored by TIME), was Ataturk -- because of an organized campaign waged by Turks in and out of Turkey.
The same thing must have happened here for Erdogan. His views, and the views of those who created what was European civilization, have nothing in common.
Once a humble istambouli, then Toast of that Town, and now of Europa, which seems hellbent on letting itself be raped by all this Muslim bull, indeed.
Perhaps the Belgian magazine can run a contest about the kind of paintings that will be allowed in the new islamized Europe, where Erdogan will not feel out of place. And who will paint the pictures -- no faces allowed now, even if those Indo-Mughal miniaturists got away with it for awhile -- for the courtiers of the new Eurabia? Landscape after landscape, or humble objects, will be much in vogue.
Which here at Wall Street/Jihadwatch Week, grades into the obvious prediction: if you are going to buy up canvases that will be most valuable to the rulers of the new Eurabia, stick with Ruisdael, Turner, and Morandi. No Titian, Giorgione, Rembrandt, Raeburn, Velazquez. NOthing with people or especially, with Madonnas or any kind of Biblical scenes or references in it. Just those skies and trees and vases, please.
I think I'm going to hurl...I'm not sure if it's from the nausea or the uncontollable laughter (?)
Mike-
My feelings- and reactions- to a T! (Projectile laughter?)
It sounds like an old Monty Python sketch.
Ah, I'm dreaming of the time when this entire nightmaric cult will be toast. (And 'jam'med back into oblivion where it belongs.)
Then the Infidel survivors can raise their own toast (forbidden by the Koran, because, when given a Divine Test of Choosing Between Milk and Wine, Mohammad chose Milk) [-does that make him a milktoast?-]) and say cheers to the survival of the Free Human Mind and Spirit.
A fine 1964 Argentine Trumpeter Cabernet Sauvignon, anyone?
And get about the real task of expanding into the Universe -where hopefully we'll encounter intelligences a little more appealing than these death-loving nihilists and their sugar-coated spin on the savage suras (sweetened with a little
stolen compassion from their utterly-forgotten prophet Jesus).
Joining the music of the Spheres and not the death dance of the dimwitted.
I am nominating Edrogan for the "Denial of genocide award" (previous winner being David Erving), the "Our minaret’s will be our bayonets" award, the "Do as I say Europe or you know what" award, and the "I will respect european human rights until I am powerful enough to tell you all to get stuffed" award.
typo": I meant David Irving.
Some good Aussie Cab/Sav. available here, profitsbeard:
a 97 Xanadu Reserve, Margaret River. Hard to beat!
Anyone out there who has a cronology or reasonably complete record of all known islamic atrocities, conquests, genocides and wars since the cursed existense of this moronic "prophet" (mabbhoohg) "may american bombs blow him out of his grave") and may pigs and dogs piss on his followers daily until the cult is gone...
Cheers!
There is a typo in my posting above: Credo quia absurdum, not absurdam. Perhaps, because he was a maghrebin avant la lettre, the author of that famous phrase, and the father of Christian Latin literature, Tertullian, would now be claimed as one more "Islamic" influence on Europe, despite having lived about 500 years before Muhammad arrived on the scene to see justice done.
Anything, no matter how ridiculous, is possible nowadays.
If the Western world does manage to come to its senses in time (and I think it will), it should completely re-fashion the teaching of history and literature, so that this kind of mistake does not happen again. In other words, teach history, teach literature -- teach people what happened, and give them a chronological grid upon which to hang not their hats but their facts. Give every man, woman and child in the Western world Shephard's Historical Atlas, and William Langer's "Encyclopedia of World History," and perhaps -- for obvious reasons -- Hazard's "Atlas of Islamic History" published by Princeton University Press in 1951, with invaluable maps showing the takeover of Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Buddhist territories by Islam, and the changes in the population.
Yes, not a chicken in every pot, but a Shepard's Historical Atlas in every school satchel.
And as for literature -- well, no more of that French stuff that is the product not of "perfected civilization" but of one where too many people had suffered from a surfeit of dictees and literary analysis, and wanted something else, and got it or made it up, and then exported it to the United States, where the poor students, graduate students, professors have never suffered from such a surfeit, but need to acquire the kind of instruction in textual analysis that used to be, in the old zero-de-conduite days, the French student's birthright.
A little education would go a long way in the immunization program that the West needs to begin. And promptly.